Namelix

Namelix

Business name generator

4.5
2 reviews

74 followers

Namelix is a great free branding tool to generate a business name for your startup. The tool uses artificial intelligence to generate short, catchy, and brandable names and also lets you filter the results using positive and negative keywords, short names preference, and domain name availability.

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Rhys Adams
Hey, can you explain how AI is used in this a little more please? Thanks
Jack Qiao
@rhysbeingsocial yeah sure - first it passes your input keywords through fasttext - we get a random sampling of the top 100 or so words most related to your input keywords - the top words are used as the dictionary input to a markov chain word generator, which generates 10~15000 random words - the results are passed again through fasttext, we take the cosine distance of the resulting word to your input keywords (by using the out-of-vocab feature of fasttext) - the top 100 most relevant results are returned I had previously tried an encoder-decoder model with fasttext as the encoder and an RNN as the decoder, but it didn't work well so I ended up with this approach.
Primer
@rhysbeingsocial @jak_9994 that just sounds like an algorithm. Not AI.
Jack Qiao
@rhysbeingsocial @mickc79 AI is just algorithms.. word vectors, neural nets and earlier NLP research all qualify as AI imo
Primer
@rhysbeingsocial @jak_9994 well I could implement what you just described. It’s simply a step by step process that’s repeated every time. Not an AI. However in a world where “AI” is thrown into almost every description of every new product, I don’t blame you.
Jack Qiao
hi guys there have been other RNN-based business name generators: eg. http://adamloving.com/2016/12/26... but the names they generate are kind of random. I built this tool to generate names that are related to your business idea. the results are still pretty random, but sometimes you get a really cool one. My favorite keywords are "sexy, canadian" and "fun, weed" if you want really short, abstract names I recommend checking "shorter names", and unchecking "domain available"
Justin Mitchell
Why the random colors for backgrounds? Makes it impossible to read the text on some of the results. Bad UX.
Jack Qiao
@itsthisjustin it gives it some flavor I guess : ] each name is rendered as a logo from my logo maker site. The colors are randomly generated from a list, I'm removing the illegible ones as I find them.
Andre Goersch
@jak_9994 I'd recommend using HSL color values instead of hex RGB, and making sure there is at least a 50% gap in the Lightness channel between the background and foreground colors. That should help prevent legibility issues.

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